Outcomes

Innovation With Impact

Identify problems in medical informatics with high potential for impact and utility

Problem Solving Skills

Formulate problems, critically evaluate them and research & build methods to solve them

Knowledge-based Scholarship

Comprehend, recall and apply concepts in computing, health, mathematics and medical informatics

Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Experiential Learning

Participate in teams with other professionals developing and adapting computer science solutions to health problems

Professional and Leadership Skills

Develop skills in ethics, communications, presentation, publishing, media, networking, leadership and team management

EDI Awareness and Promotion

Train with experts in race and informatics, inclusive workplaces, anti-racism, mental health, gender diversity, unconscious bias and intercultural awareness

News

Dilakshan Srikanthan Secures Third Place at National 3MT Competition

Dilakshan Srikanthan Secures Third Place at National 3MT Competition

Congratulations to Dilakshan Srikanthan, MD/PhD student in Translational Medicine at Queen’s and Med-i CREATE trainee, for achieving Third Place at the 2025 National 3MT Showcase competition held in Ottawa! See more information on Queen's Gazette
Welcome to Our Newest Cohort in the CREATE Training Program in Medical Informatics

Welcome to Our Newest Cohort in the CREATE Training Program in Medical Informatics

On October 9, we welcomed the latest cohort of trainees to the Med-i CREATE program. Both new and current students participated in a mandatory session hosted by the Experiential Learning Hub at Queen’s University, which was followed by an orientation and welcome address from Principal Investigator Dr. Parvin Mousavi. Students from Western University joined both sessions remotely.
Med-i CREATE Master’s Students Successfully Complete Their Degrees

Med-i CREATE Master’s Students Successfully Complete Their Degrees

Congratulations to Med-i CREATE Master’s students Tyler Elliott, Maha Kesibi, E Ching Kho, Bining Long, and Sarah Nassar on successfully completing their degrees.
Emma Willis and Vivian Nguyen Awarded Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s for 2025-2026

Emma Willis and Vivian Nguyen Awarded Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s for 2025-2026

Emma Willis and Vivian Nguyen, both students in the Med-i CREATE program, have been awarded the prestigious Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s (CGS M) for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Director

Parvin Mousavi

Prof. Comp/ECE/Pathology, member of the Royal Soc of Canada, College of New Scholars

As the world’s population grows to 10B by 2050, technology-enabled innovation is the critical to ensuring well-being for all. While AI and informatics show great promise in rapid analysis of next-generation large scale data, future workers will require highly specialized training fit to the unique nature of health data. We aim to solidify Canada’s competitive advantage in the global space through concerted efforts to train computer scientists with specialized multi-disciplinary experience in medical informatics and digital health, and engage diverse groups and lived experiences in our training.

Projects

Integration, federation, and retrieval of large-scale data repositories in Canada

We collaborate with the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) and the Ontario Health Data Platform (OHDP) to tackle novel challenges in data management and devise evaluation frameworks that center on security, performance and fairness.

Next generation of actionable prescriptive analysis using multi-resolution, multi-modality data

We build computation models of disease from multi-omics data using machine learning, deep learning and evolutionary algorithms, focusing on innovations that address the unique nature of health data and the unavailability and vagueness of gold-standard labels (e.g., pathology labels).

Democratization of AI, software and data for healthcare

We're international leaders in developing and disseminating open source software using low-cost point-of-care imaging. Our positive impact on the global computer–assisted medical interventions community has is constantly expanding. We'll meet new challenges for discovery, refinement of methods and innovative AI-powered solutions using large open source data, hence democratizing access to care and positive outcomes of AI.

Featured Students

McKinley Van Klei
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Queen's University
I graduated from Queen's University with a Bachelor of Applied Science in mechanical and materials engineering with a specialization in biomechanical engineering, in the spring of 2024. I recently started the Master of Applied Science program in biomechanical engineering with…
Shuwei Xing
Biomedical Engineering
Western University
Shuwei Xing is a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering at Robarts Research Institute, Western University. He started his program in 2020 and is currently co-supervised by Prof. Terry Peters and Prof. Aaron Fenster. In 2019, Shuwei obtained his Master’s degree…
Vivian Nguyen
School of Computing
Queen's University
Vivian is a MSc student in Computing, working in the Medical Informatics Laboratory. She completed her Master’s in Biomedical Informatics and BScH in Life Sciences at Queen’s University. Her research focuses on applying foundation models to improve breast cancer detection…
Noah Jonathan Blackburn-Hum
Medical Biophysics
Western University
Noah recently completed his undergraduate degree in Biological and Medical Physics at the University of Waterloo. He is now beginning his MSc under Dr. Sarah Mattonen at Western University in Medical Biophysics, his research focuses on improving target delineation for…

University Partners

Western University